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CLASS OF 1889, 
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DECENNIAL RECORD. 



COMPILED BY 
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In presenting the decennial record of the Bowdoin Class of 
1889 the secretary would express his thanks to the classmates for 
their co-operation, and beg their indulgence for the shortcomings 
of this little publication. Only three members failed to comply 
with the request for personal data, and in their cases the secretary 
does not hold himself responsible for errors. The compiler has 
not neglected to draw upon the files of the Orient and other 
sources for facts concerning which individual modesty forbade 
mention in the responses to the circulars. His aim has been to 
present as full and accurate an account of the life of each class- 
mate as possible. 



CONTENTS. 

Page. 

Retrospect 7 

Biographical 11 

Post Graduatiox Meetings 39 

Markiages, Chronologically 42 

Children, Chronologically 43 

Deaths 44 

Occupations 41 

Degrees Received 45 

Fraternity Membership 45 

Residences, by States 46 

Statistical Summary 46 

Addresses of the Class 47 

Errata 48 



RETROSPECT, 



Henry Ward Beecber once said that no man could be too careful 
in the choice of his father and mother. Not only were the mem- 
bers of the Class of 1889 of Bowdoin College fortunate in their 
selection of a foster mother, but they chose a period of good 
omen for the start of their collegiate career. It was the day of the 
Renaissance of Bowdoin. A youthful president entered college 
with our class, and infused into us, as he did into the institution 
itself, the energy and vitality of his sterling manhood. It was a 
proud thing for '89 to consider President Hyde almost as one of 
ourselves, and to feel that whatever he accomplished which made 
for the good of the college, we, somehow, had a share in the 
achievement. From the hour he (and our class, if you please,) 
first set foot upon the campus, Bowdoin entered upon the flood 
tide of prosperity, which has steadily advanced and never re- 
ceded. 

Between 1885 and 1889 the number of students increased fifty 
per cent. ; the scope of the curriculum was greatly extended, 
preparing the way for the more radical changes, particularly in 
relation to the range of electives, that have come in recent years ; 
several notable bequests were made to the college ; the long de- 
sired gymnasium ceased to be a myth and the course in physical 
training was established ; the laboratories of that day were re- 
fitted and improved ; the library was re-arranged and re-cata- 
logued in accordance with modern ideas ; the bronze tablets com- 
memorating the war heroes were placed in Memorial Hall ; and 
King's Chapel was embellished with the ninth panel picture and 
furnished with the beautiful organ. These are some of the rea- 
sons why we look back with especial pride upon the period when 
we were at Bowdoin. 



8 BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 

It was on Friday, June 26, 1885, that members of our class 
came together in any considerable numbers for the first time. 
On that day a score or thereabouts of Sub-Freshmen gathered 
in the Cleaveland lecture room in Massachusetts Hall and faced 
the examiners with fear and trembling. Again in the fall, on 
Friday, Sept. 11, another group was put through the mill, and 
on Tuesday, the 15th, when college opened for the year, the 
Class of 1889, in all its pristine effulgence, burst upon the admir- 
ing gaze of Bowdoin. Disregarding the proverbial ill-luck 
attending the number thirteen. Fate had launched us in the third 
multiple thereof, which, it should be said, has always proved 
auspicious for our class. Seven of the boys were graduates of 
Bridgton Academy, five from the Saco High School, four came 
from Kents Hill, three from the Coburn Classical Institute, Wa- 
terville, and two each from the Portland High School and the 
Wilton and Fryeburg Academies. The preparatory schools of 
the other fourteen were scattered among as many towns and 
cities, chiefly in Maine, of which state all the members of the 
class but three were residents. E. A. Merrill, Jackson and Pres- 
ton may well have viewed their companions from a different 
standpoint from the rest of us, Merrill having passed his prelimi- 
nary entrance examinations in the spring of 1883, and Jackson 
and Preston having been admitted to college in 1884. 

There were eligible to join us the following young men who 
received tickets of admission to Bowdoin in 1885, but who failed 
to accept the opportunity to become members of our class and 
thus bring our number up to fifty : George Brinton Chand- 
ler (Bowdoin, 1890); Frederic Payne Graves, Saco; Willian 
Horace Greeley (Bowdoin, 1890) ; Sumner Abbott Grover, West 
Bethel ; Thomas Mayo Lewis, Saccarappa ; John Russell Per- 
kins, South Berwick; William B. Pierce, Harpswell Centre; 
Quincy Reed, 2nd, South Weymouth, Mass. ; Ephraim Spaulding, 
East Salisbury; Fred Ellsworth Sweetsir, Saco (M. D., Bow- 
doin, 1888) ; James Patrick Towle, Bangor. 

The first roll call of '89 was as follows : E. L. Adams, F. W. 
Adams, Bodge, Clark, Crocker, Doherty, Emerj', Files, C. H. 
Fogg, S. L. Fogg, Freeman, Gilpatric, Harriman, Hersey, Hill, 
Jackson, Little, Lynam, Manson, E. A. Merrill, H. Merrill, 



CLASS OF 1889. 9 

Mitchell, Neal, Owen, Phelan, Prentiss, Preston, Rideout, Rog- 
ers, ¥. M. Russell, F. C. Russell, Shirley, O. R. Smith, Stacey, 
Staples, Stearns, Watts, White, Wilson. 

There was no change during Freshman year, but the following 
fall we missed two familiar faces. F. W. Adams was taken ill 
and decided not to return to college, and Wilson's splendid talent 
as a base ball player had resulted in a shift to Williams. In their 
places, at the beginning of Sophomore year, came Rice and Thwing 
(direct from the Phillips Academies, thus missing the delights 
of Freshman year in any college), and Robie, who started with 
'88, but remained out a year on account of ill health. These 
accessions were followed by three more : Carroll, from Bates, at 
the beginning of the winter term ; Elden, from Colby, about the 
middle of the winter term ; and Libby, from Bates, at the be- 
ginning of the spring term. 

Preston entered Amherst at the opening of Junior year, at 
which time Hayes, from Bates, and E. A. B. Smith, from Tufts, 
joined our class. During the fall term we lost Shirley through 
iljness, and in the following March Herbert Merrill by death. At 
the end of Junior year Manson and Jackson took their leave, 
the former owing to trouble with his eyes, and the latter because 
of the offer of a good school. There were no additions during 
Senior year, and when, in December, 1888, Harriman left us, we 
were destined to graduate the original number of thirty-nine. 
Thirty-one were with us the entire four years. We had lost eight 
members and gained eight. The high water mark had been 
reached in the fall term of Junior year, upon which forty-four 
classmates entered. The total number ever connected with the 
class was forty-seven. 

Although only three of ns during our course were residents of 
other states than Maine, we were natives of six states and one 
province, as follows : Maine, thirty-eight ; New Hampshire, 
three ; Massachusetts, two ; California, Georgia, Rhode Island, 
and New Brunswick, one each. Forty cities and towns claimed 
the honor of our nativity. 

Connected with our class as special students during our course, 
and hence always having our kindly interest and regard, w^ere the 
following : Willis Robinson Tcnney, of Brunswick, Freshman 



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and Sophomore years; Rev. Henry Edmund Bray, of Brighton, 
Mass., and Benjamin Lincoln Furbish, of Brunswick, Junior 
year ; and Richard Fitch Chase, of West Baldwin, Junior and 
Senior years. 

The day of separation, June 27, 1889, came all too soon. Be- 
fore we were aware, the president's voice, calling '-^Cayididati pro 
gradu bacccdaurealis ascendete," hailed us to the platform to re- 
ceive our diplomas, and we were dismissed out into the world 
laden wdth precious memories of four happy years. Those memo- 
ries are ever with us. As we pause a moment today for a back- 
ward look, each may naturally say with the poet : 

'■Oh, happy days, when youth's wild ways 

Knew every phase of harmless folly I 
Ob, blissful nights, whose tierce delights 

Defied gauut-featured Melani^holy ! 
Gone are they all be3'ond recall, 

And I — a shade, a mere reflection — 
Ain forced to feed my spirits' greed 

Upon the husks of retrospection !" 

The lapse of ten years finds the Class of 1889 engaged with 
the work of life in the same industrious, enthusiastic and cheer- 
ful spirit that characterized our work in college. The pages that 
follow contain the records of our upward-strivings, our achieve- 
ments. We are still young and our " hearts are beating high" 
within us. The best years of our lives are yet before us. What- 
ever they may bring of honor, of eminence, or of fame, we 
shall never forget what we owe to Alma Mater, and we shall 
always hold in affectionate remembrance the old days at Bowdoin, 
for 

''We spent them not in toys, nor lust, nor wine, 

But search of deep philosophy, wit, eloquence and poesy. 
Arts which we loved, for they, my friends, were thine." 



BIOGRAPHICAL, 



The asterisk (*) used throughout the book denotes a deceased classmate ; the dagger 
(I), one who did not graduate with us. Only degrees other than A, B. conferred at Bow- 
doin in 1889 are mentioned. All towns referred to are in Maine unless otherwise stated. 

Emerson Leland Adams. 

Emerson Leland Adams, son of Jonas Green and Serena 
(Hall) Adams, was born Feb. 6, 1866, at Wilton. He prepared 
for college at the Wilton Academy, and entered Freshman from 
East Dixfield. In August, 1889, he became principal of Mc- 
Indoes Academy, Mclndoes Falls, Vt., where he remained until 
Christmas. From January to June, 1890, he was principal of 
the Hopkinton (Mass.) High School, and was instructor in Latin 
and English at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 1890-91. 
Between August, 1891, and July, 1892, he was special agent for 
the Provident Life and Trust Company at Lewiston. Since Au- 
gust, 1892, he has been principal of the New Salem Academy, 
New Salem, Mass. His school is now an Academy and High 
School combined, and he has two assistants. Every summer he 
manages a summer hotel in the town, entertaining from thirty to 
fifty boarders from New York, Boston, and other cities, and will 
be pleased to see any of the classmates who contemplate a vaca- 
tion in western Massachusetts. He is a member of the Head- 
masters' Club of Western Massachusetts, and has read several 
papers before the Franklin County Teachers' Association, one of 
which, on "Discipline," was highly commended by Agent Fletcher 
of the state board of education. 

Degree received : A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 

Married : Dec. 2, 1892, Effie Cynthia Dascombe (Colby 
College, 1891), of Wilton. 

Children, born in New Salem : Ethel Margaret Adams, born 
May 10, 1894, Class Baby of Colby, '91 ; Ruth Dascombe 
Adams, born Marcli 15, 1896. 



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t Frederic Winslow Adams. 

Frederic Winslow Adams, son of Rev. Jonathan Edwards 
(Bowdoin, 1853) and Lucy Gushing (Adams) Adams, was born 
July 19, 1867, in Searsport. He entered Freshman from Ban- 
gor, having taken his preparatory course at the Bangor High 
School, and pursued one year of college life with us. In the fall 
of 1886 he did not return to Bowdoin, owing to an illness which 
became so prolonged that he abandoned all idea of rejoining the 
class. Shortly after, he secured a position with the Merchants 
National Bank of Bangor, entering upon his duties in February, 
1887, and has since remained with that institution, at the present 
time being book-keeper. 

Married : Oct. 14, 1891, Annie Ross Baker, of Bangor. 

Children, born in Bangor : Lucy Gushing Adams, born Oct. 
21, 1892 ; Stanley Baker Adams, born May 6, 1898. 

Lincoln John Bodge. 

Lincoln John Bodge, son of John Jackson and Martha Maria 
(Webb) Bodge, was born May 24, 1865, at South Windham. 
He was prepared for college at the Bridgton Academy, and en- 
tered Freshman from South Windham. In August following 
graduation he entered upon the study of law in Minneapolis, 
with Mortimer H. Boutelle (Bowdoin, 1887), and pursuing his 
studies further in the law department of the University of Min- 
nesota, was admitted to the Hennepin county bar Dec. 1, 1890, 
in the district court of the fourth judicial district, at Minneapo- 
lis. He was one of eight candidates for admission and in the 
examination ranked first among the four who were successful. 
Since that time he has continuously practiced law in Minneapolis, 
being for a while in the firm of Stryker & Bodge. At present, 
however, he is not in partnership, and has an office at 523 Boston 
Block. 

Degree received: A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 

Married : July 18, 1893, Josephine Florence King, of South 
Paris. 

Children, born in Minneapolis : Mary Bodge, born May 30, 
1895; John Bodge, born April 17, 1897. 



CLASS OF 18S9. 13 

Bernard Chauncey Carroll. 

Bernard Chauncey Carroll, son of John Chauncey and Eliza- 
beth (Hinkley) Carroll, was born May 30, 1868, at Fort Jones, 
Cal. He prepared for college at the Lewiston High School, and 
entered Bates in the fall of 1885, coming to Bowdoin at the be- 
ginning of the winter term. Sophomore year. During the sum- 
mer following graduation he went to California in company with 
Hayes, and was located in general mercantile business at San Jose 
and also at Montague for about a year. Returning east in 1890, he 
began the study of law in the office of White & Carter (Bowdoin, 
1875), Lewiston, where he remained until the summer of 1892. 
Then he went to Minneapolis and continued his studies with 
Cobb & Wheelwright (both Bowdoin, 1881), also attending lec- 
tures in the law department of the University of Minnesota, 
where he graduated in the class of 1893. He was admitted to 
the Minnesota bar, June 1, 1893. Removing to California, he 
practiced two years in San Francisco, and for the last three years 
has been located at Stockton. 

John Rogers Clark. 

John Rogers Clark, son of Horatio and Caroline Hutchins 
(Metcalf) Clark, was born Dec. 13, 1864, in New Portland. 
His preparatory course was taken at the Bridgton Academ}^ 
and he entered Freshman from New Portland. For a year and 
a half after graduation he was principal of the Kennebunk High 
School. Another like period was spent in business in Kansas 
City, Mo., and Minneapolis, and in the fall of 1892 he entered 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, where 
he graduated with honors in June, 1895. That fall he taught a 
term in the New Portland High School, and on Jan. 1, 1896, en- 
tered upon the duties of junior house physician at Roosevelt 
Hospital, New York, to which he had been appointed as the re- 
sult of a competitive examination in June preceding. He was in 
the medical service at the hospital for eighteen months, after 
which he spent a year in the gynaecological department at the 
same institution. For two months during 1898 lie was an assist- 
ant surgeon in the Sloane Maternity Hospital, New York. Last 



14 BOV?DOm COLLEGE. 

fall he took an examination before the army board for the place 
of acting assistant surgeon, U. S. A., and standing first on the 
list, received tlie appointment, with rank of first lientenant. 
Since Sept. 1, 1898, he has been stationed at Fort Wadsworth, 
Staten Island, New York Harbor. 

Degrees received : A. M., Bowdoin, 1892; M. D., College 
of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1895. 

* Thomas Stowell Crocker. 

Thomas Stowell Crocker, son of Thomas Morrill and Harriet 
Elizabeth (Clark) Crocker, was born in Paris, Nov. 25, 1864. 
He entered Freshman from his native town, basing received his 
preparatory coarse at Hebron Academy. Immediately following 
graduation he began the study of law in Paris, and completed his 
course at Washington, D. C, where he graduated from Colum- 
bian University in 1891. He was admitted to the Maine bar at 
Paris in 1892. He practiced his profession for a short time at 
Richmond, but his business interests in Floijida prevented him 
from giving his entire attention to the law. Later he removed to 
Dorchester, Mass., and in the fall of 1897 w^as obliged to visit 
Colorado for his health, which had failed greatly during the year. 
His illness terminated in consumption, and he died March 30, 
1898, at his home in Dorchester. The burial was at Paris, on 
April 4. 

Degree received: LL. B., Columbian University, 1891. 

Married: Sept. 29, 1891, Rose Lunt Pratt, of New York 
City. 

Child: Arline Dorothea Crocker, born Feb. 21, 1896, at 
Richmond. 

James Louis Doherty. 

James Louis Doherty, son of James Edward and Elizabeth 
(Smith) Doherty, was born March 24, 1865, at Canterbury, New 
Brunswick. Preparing for college at Houlton Academy, he en- 
tered Freshman from Houlton. After graduation he became 
principal of a grammar school at Houlton, and at the same time 
entered upon the study of law in the office of Madigan & Madi- 



CLASS OF 1889. 15 

gan in that town. Being admitted to the bar in September, 1891, 
he practiced for about three years and a half at Oldtown, and in 
March, 1895, removed to Springfield, Mass., where for a time he 
was in partnership with the late Thomas A. Fitzgibbon. He now 
has an office at Room 22, Theatre Building, Court Square, 
Springfield. He is a member of the board of directors of the 
Springfield Engine Stop Company ; also a member of the Irish- 
American Historical Society. While in Oldtown, in 1893, he 
served on the school committee and in 1894-95 on the board of 
registration. 

Married : Oct. 30, 1895, Harriet Isabella Madigan, of 
Houlton. 

Children, born in Springfield : James Cottrill Doherty, born 
Nov. 28, 1896 ; Louis Whittier Doherty, born June 30, 1898. 

Wallace Stedman Elden. 

Wallace Stedman Elden, son of Joseph Franklin and Sarah 
Dowe (Stark) Elden, was born May 25, 1868, in Waterville. 
His preparatory school was the Coburn Classical Institute, Wa- 
terville, and his first year and a half of college life was passed 
at Colby. He entered Bowdoin io February of Sophomore year. 
In the fall of 1889 he began the advanced study of Latin, French, 
and German at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, where he 
remained one year. He was headmaster of the Rectory School, 
Hamden, Conn., 1890-91, and then returned for another year at 
Johns Hopkins. While there he was awarded a scholarship of $200 
for excellence in Latin. He was instructor in Latin and French, 
Ohio State University, Columbus, 1892-94 ; instructor in the 
Romance languages. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1894- 
96 ; and since February, 1897, has been professor of Latin in 
the University of Maine, Orono. He is a candidate for the de- 
gree of Ph. D. from the University of Michigan the present month. 
An article by him, "The Authenticity of the Moretum," ap- 
peared in the Chicago School Journal during 1896. He is a 
member of the Sons of the American Revolution. 

Degree received: A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 



16 BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 

William Morrell Emery. 

William Morrell Emery, son of Edwin (Bowdoin, 1861) and 
Louisa Farnham (Wing) Emery, was born Oct. 2, 1866, in 
Brunswick. He entered Freshman from New Bedford, Mass., 
where his preparatory course was taken in the High School. His 
tendencies were always in the direction of newspaper work, upon 
which he entered as soon as possible after graduation. He was 
a reporter on the Lowell Daily (evening) Citizen from Aug. 21, 
1889, to Jan. 15, 1890; reporter and city editor, Providence 
Evening Telegram, Feb. 13 to Sept, 27, 1890; city editor, New 
Bedford Evening Journal, Oct. 6, 1890, to Aug. 3, 1895, being 
editor of the same ad interim in the spring of 1895 ; night edi- 
tor and editorial writer, New Bedford Morning Mercury, Aug. 
11, 1895, to April 15, 1899. He has also contributed to Frank 
Leslie's Weekly, The Illustrated American, and other publica- 
tions. 

Degree received: A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 

Married : March 24, 1894, Margaret Calhoun Donaghy of 
New Bedford. 

George Taylor Files. 

George Taylor Files, son of Andrew Hobson and Sarah Louise 
(Yeaton) Files, was born Sept. 23, 1866, in Portland. He en- 
tered Freshman from that city, having prepared for college at the 
Portland High School. For the year 1889-90 he was a graduate 
student in English, German, and history at Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity, Baltimore, and in 1890-91, tutor in German, Latin, and 
Greek at Bowdoin, where in the spring of 1891 he was elected 
instructor in German for three years, and given two years' leave 
of absence to study in Europe. He at once went abroad. From 
October, 1891, to August, 1893, he was a student of Germanic 
philology and philosophy at the University of Leipsic, Germany. 
He spent the spring of 1892 in Italy and Switzerland; summer 
and fall of 1892 in England (chiefly London) and Holland ; and 
also visited France, chiefly Paris. Returning to Bowdoin in the 
fall of 1893, he entered upon his new^ duties, and in the spring 
of 1894 was elected professor of German, which position he still 



CLASS OF 1S89. 17 

holds. His popularity among the students has found expression in 
the dedication of the Bugle of the Class of 1898 to him. He is a 
member of the Modern Language Association of America, and 
has published "The Anglo-Saxon House," dissertation for 
doctor's degree, Oswald Schmidt & Co., Leipsic, 1893. Next 
year he expects to bring out "Goethe's Poems, Selected and Bio- 
graphically Studied," to be published by D. C. Heath. On June 
8 he sailed for a vacation trip to Germany. 

Degrees received: A. M., Bowdoin, 1892; Ph. D., Leip- 
sic, 1893. 

Married : May 9, 1894, Edith Davis, of Portland. 

Charles Houlton Fogg. 

Charles Houlton Fogg, son of Almon Henry and Lucy Web- 
ster Houlton (Hasey) Fogg, was born July 8, 1866, in Houlton. 
His preparation for college was obtained at the Riverview Mili- 
tary Academy, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and he entered Freshman 
from his native town. In September, 1889, he entered the em- 
ploy of the Frederick Taylor Company, Lowell, Mass., to obtain 
a thorough knowledge of the hardware business, in which busi- 
ness he has remained, having been since 1890 associated with his 
father in the wholesale and retail firm of Almon H. Fogg & Co., 
Houlton. At present he is manager of the bicycle department. 
He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. 

Married : Dec. 7, 1892, Rosina Hodgdon Kidder, of Houl- 
ton. 

Sanford Leroy Fogg. 

Sanford Leroy Fogg, son of Simon and Lydia Hodgdon (Fogg) 
Fogg, was born June 26, 1863, at Milan, N. H. He entered 
Freshman from South Paris, having prepared for college at the 
Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kents Hill, Readfield. For the year 
following graduation he was principal of the High School at 
Island Pond, Vt. Then he pursued the study of law in the office 
of Judge George A. Wilson, South Paris, and was admitted to the 
bar in May, 1893, at once beginning practice at Rumford Falls, 
where he was made trial justice for Oxford county. In October, 
1893, he removed to Bath, and continued in the practice of his 



18 BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 

profession, acting as city solicitor during the latter part of 1893 
and in 1894. In December, 1895, he was appointed judge of 
the Bath municipal court, which position he now holds. He 
served on the board of assessors of South Paris, 1891-92, being 
chairman in the latter year, and was superintendent of schools of 
Paris in 1892-93. In 1895 he was a member of the Bath city 
council. 

Degree received: A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 

Married : June 22, 1898, Jessie Katherine Moody, of Bath. 

Frederick William Freeman. 

Frederick William Freeman, son of William Penn and .Jerusha 
Cole (Freeman) Freeman, was born March 16, 1866, at Saco. He 
entered Freshman from that city, having prepared for college at 
the Saco High School. Since graduation he has given his entire 
time to teaching, as follows : Principal Grammar School, Thom- 
aston, 1889-90 ; principal Alfred High School, 1890-92 ; prin- 
cipal High School, Brewer, 1892-95; and principal Westbrook 
High School, 1895 to date. He is a member of the Cumberland 
County Teachers' Association, the Maine Schoolmasters' Club, 
and the Maine Pedagogical Society. 

Degree received : A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 

Married : Aug. 27, 1890, Ida May Strout, of Saco. 

Child: Ethel Marion Freeman, born April 21, 1892, in Al- 
fred. 

Wilbur Dennett Gilpatric. 

Wilbur Dennett Grilpatric, son of Robert Edgecomb and Mary 
Ellen (Dennett) Grilpatric, was born Feb. 16, 1868, at Bidde- 
ford. He entered Freshman from Saco, having prepared for col- 
lege at the High School in that place. During the summer of 
1889 he was book-keeper for D. F. Littlefield, wholesale fruit 
and produce dealer, Saco, a position he has filled for almost 
every summer vacation since leaving college. He taught the dis- 
trict school at Pine Point, Scarboro, in 1889-90, and for a time 
was in the employ of the American Express Co. in Saco. From 
April, 1891, to June, 1895, he was principal of the High School 



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at Kenuebuukport, and since September, 1895, has been princi- 
pal of the West Boylston (Mass.) High School, teaching Latin, 
Greek, mathematics, and economics. 

Degree received: A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 

t Charles Henry Harriman. 

Charles Henry Harriman, son of Moses Harriman, was born 
March 8, 1864, at Chatham, N. H. He entered Freshman from 
Fryebnrg, having prepared for college at the Fryeburg Academy. 
He left Bowdoin at the end of the first term of Senior year, and 
for several years was engaged in teaching, holding the positions 
of principal of the High School at Littleton, Mass., 1889-91, and 
of the Branford (Coue.) High School from 1891 to 1897. In 
September, 1897, he entered the law department of Yale Univer- 
sity, from which he expects to graduate with the degree of LL. 
B. on Jane 28 of this ^^ear. Our classmate is married, but 
owing to his failure to supply information, further particulars 
are lacking. 

^ George William Hayes. 

George William Hayes, son of William Henry and Leonora 
(Kelley) Hayes, was born Oct. 22, 1867, in Lewiston. His pre- 
paratory course was taken at the Lewiston High School. He did 
not enter Bowdoin until Junior year, having for two ^^ears been a 
member of the class of 1889 at Bates College. Going west with 
Carroll in the summer after graduation, he engaged in the study 
of law for nearly four years at San Jose, Cal., during that period 
also serving as night editor of the Times and the Mercur}^, San 
Jose, and from 1890 to 1893 holding the office of assistant county 
clerk, probate department. He was admitted to the California 
bar May 3, 1893, and returned to his native city in June. In 
the following November the failure of his health forced him to 
remove to Colorado, where he located on a ranch near Denver. 
He died of consumption while on a visit to Denver, Jan. 31, 
1894. At the funeral, which was held in Lewiston, Feb. 9, rep- 
resentatives of the class were present. 

Degree received : A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 



20 BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 

Charles Francis Hersey. 

Charles Francis Hersey, son of Asa Joy and Sarah Ann Eliza 
(Brown) Hersey, was born Jan. 11, 1860, in Waterford. At 
the age of 19 he left the farm on which he had been reared, and 
coming to Massachusetts finally entered the employ of contractors 
for railroad barbed wire fence, acting as a travelling gang boss 
for several years. In this capacity he travelled over many states. 
His conversion to religion occuring while engaged in this work, 
he determined to study for the ministry, and prepared for college 
at Bridgton Academy. He entered Bowdoin as a Freshman, 
from North Waterford. During the summer after graduation he 
preached in York. In the fall he entered Andover Theological 
Seminary, from which he was graduated Juue 16, 1892. While 
at Andover he engaged in religious work on Saturdays and Sun- 
days and in vacations with Berkeley Temple, Boston, continuing 
there for a year and a half. In May, 1891, he ])egan to supply 
the pulpit of the Congregational church in Burlington, Mass., 
was ordained to the ministry there on Jan. 25, 1893, and re- 
mained in the pastorate until January, 1894. At that time he 
accepted an invitation to become city missionary at New Bed- 
ford, Mass., and entered upon his duties Feb. 1. In his five 
years of labor in this field he has been xerj successful, and has 
greatly broadened and extended the work. He is a member of 
the Old Colony Congregational Ministers' Association ; the New 
Bedford Ministerial Union, of w^hich he has been president ; and 
the New Bedford Education Society. He was formerly a member 
of the Woburn Congregational Ministers' Association, and in 
1898 was one of the examining board of Andover Seminary. 
During his life in Waterford he was a highway surveyor, al- 
though he cannot remeuiber of ever having surveyed anything, 
he declares. 

Degree received: A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 

Married : In Boston, Oct. 12, 1892, Sarah Dow Weeks, of 
Wakefield, N, H, 

Child: Evelyn Weeks Hersey, born Dec. 9, 1897, at New 
Bedford. 



CLASS OF 1889. 21 

Frank Howard Hill. 

Frank Howard Hill, son of Andrew Jackson and Susan Emily 
(Sweetsir) Hill, was born Sept. 5, 1867, at Cape Elizabeth. He 
took his preparatory course at the High School in that place, 
and entered Freshman from there. During the summer of 1889 
he was with the New York Life Insurance Company, and from 
November, 1889, to May, 1890, taught in Patten Academy. He 
began to read law with W. R. Anthoine, Portland, in June, 1890, 
and was admitted to the Cumberland bar, Nov. 1, 1892. After 
practicing law for a short time he returned to the educational 
field, and was superintendent of schools at Cape Elizabeth and 
South Portland from March, 1893, to March, 1898. Since last 
September he has been superintendent of schools at Rockland. 
He has written several poems, which have been published in the 
Portland Transcript from time to time. In June, 1891, he was 
appointed a justice of the peace. 

Married : Feb. 5, 1890, Mary Caroline Murray, of Cape 
Elizabeth. 

Children : Class Baby, Ralph Jordan Hill, born Nov. 2, 
1890 ; Eleanor Louise Hill, born Dec. 25, 1891. 

t Henry Chester Jackson. 

Henry Chester Jackson, son of Silas Young and Lucy (Shaw) 
Jackson, was born Sept. 22, 1863, in Wiscasset. He prepared 
for Bowdoin, class of 1888, at the Wiscasset High School, but 
remained out a year to teach, entering Freshman in 1885 from 
Wiscasset. At the end of Junior year he left college to become 
principal of Oakland High School, but later returned to Bowdoin 
and graduated with the class of 1891. In 1890 he won the prize 
offered by Dr. D. A. Sargent (Bowdoin, 1875), for the most 
nearly perfect male physical development, as indicated by the 
anthropometric chart. The time allowed for the competition 
was three years, and there were about three thousand competi- 
tors from all over the country. Our classmate was instructor in 
gymnastics and history at Phillips Exeter Academy from 1891 
to 1894, and on July 16 of the latter year entered Dartmouth 



22 BOVVDOm COLLEGE. 

Medical College, Hanover, N. H., where he graduated Nov. 24, 
1896. During most of his medical course he was physical direc- 
tor at Colby College, and superintended the laying of a quarter 
mile cinder track there during that time. In 1896-97 he was 
house officer in the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, 
N. H., having received the appointment thereto from his stand- 
ing in the medical college. He practiced in Canaan, N. H., from 
July to December, 1897, and has since been located in practice 
in Norwich, Vt. He is superintendent of schools of Norwich. 

Degrees received : A. B., Bowdoin, 1891 ; M. D., Dart- 
mouth, 1896. 

Married : June 23, 1892, Ellen Mower Bates, of Oakland. 
Child : Ethel Jackson, born Sept. 24, 1893, at Exeter, N. H. 

Ferdinand Joshua Libby. 

Ferdinand Joshua Libby, son of John Louville and Sarah 
White (Purinton) Libby, was born March 11, 1865, at Lisbon. 
He prepared for college at the Edward Little High School, Au- 
burn, and the Nichols Latin School, Lewiston, and after taking 
a portion of his course at Bates, joined our class at the begin- 
ning of the third term of Sophomore year, coming from Auburn. 
In the fall of 1889 he taught a school in Barnstead, N. H., for 
one term, and was then for two terms in charge of the Newfield 
Free High School, West Newfield. In 1890-91 he was principal 
of Bluehill Academy at Bluehlll ; 1891-92, principal of West 
Stockbridge, Mass., High School; and 1892-96, principal 
of Douglas High School, East Douglas, Mass. He studied 
law while teaching school, and for fifteen months In the office of 
Reed, Curtis & Manson, Boston (all Bowdoin men). April 25, 
1898, he was admitted to the bar In Boston, and has since prac- 
ticed In that city, though residing In Everett. His office Is at 
423 Tremont Building, Boston. 

Degree received : A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 
Married: Aug. 30, 1894, Florence Rebecca Alberta Fair- 
field, of Worcester, Mass. 



CLASS OF 1889. 23 

Fremont John Charles Little. 

Fremont John Charles Little, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth 
(Fish) Little, was born Dec. 5, 1861, at Whitefield. He was 
prepared for college at the Coburn Classical Institute, Water- 
ville, and entered Freshman from Jefferson. After graduation he 
became principal of the High School at North New Portland. 
He then studied law from March, 1890, to March, 1892, in the 
office of Hon. Herbert M. Heath (Bowdoin, 1872), Augusta, 
and was admitted to the Kennebec county bar at the March term 
of court in 1892. He has since practiced law in Augusta. He has 
served as city solicitor for two terms, 1894-96, and is at present 
referee in bankruptcy, under the national law, for the district of 
Kennebec. He is the author of Memorial Day addresses deliv- 
ered at Randolph in 1894 and at Unity in 1897. During the 
presidential campaign of 1896 he made a number of political 
speeches. 

Degree received : A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 

Married : June 18, 1894, Lillian Blackman, of Augusta. 
Child : Carroll Bryce Little, born March 11, 1895, in Augusta. 

Frank Lynam. 

Frank Lynam, sou of John Smallidge and Nancy Lynam, was 
born April 14, 1866, in Trenton. He prepared for college at the 
Coburn Classical Institute, Waterville, and entered Freshman 
from Bar Harbor. After graduation he spent a year at the Medi- 
cal School of Maine, and then took a three years' course at the 
Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1893. While at Harvard 
he rowed No. 4 in the University eight, and was a member of the 
victorious crew in the race with Yale in 1891. He also pulled 
No. 8 for the Crimson in the regatta of 1892. After receiving 
his medical degree he had fifteen months' service in the Massa- 
chusetts General Hospital, Boston, and for the past five years 
has practiced at Duluth, Minn. The Bowdoin Orient of Oct. 3, 
1894, referred to him as follows : "Dr. Lynam, of Duluth, noted 
while in college for his athletic abilities and sterling qualities, 
has been distinguishing himself in the recent terrible Minnesota 
forest fires by his bravery and hard work to relieve the sufferers." 



24 BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 

Degrees received: A. M., Bowcloin, 1892; M. D., Harvard, 
1893. 

Married: Dec. 12, 1893, Bertha Jessica Knowlton, of Bruns- 
wick. 

Children, born in Duliith : John Chauncey Lynam, born July 
13, 1895; Frank Campbell Lynam, born Sept. 1, 1898. 

* t Erasmus Valchester Manson. 

Erasmus Valchester Manson, son of Dr. Francis Epps and 
Mary (Ayer) Manson, was born Aug. 12, 1867, in Atlanta, G-a. 
Left an orphan at an early age, he was brought north to Oak- 
land, Me., where he grew up with relatives. He was prepared 
for college at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kents Hill, Read- 
field, and entered Freshman from Oakland. At the end of Junior 
year, owing to trouble with his eyes, he decided to relinquish the 
pursuit of his college studies. He thereupon engaged in the 
railway business, holding a position with the Somerset road 
for several years. Desultory correspondence done by him 
during this period for the New York World and other papers 
awakened in him a desire for an active participation in the work of 
newspaper making, and he- left Maine in August, 1892, and went 
west. For three years he was connected with the Duluth Com- 
monwealth. In 1894 he also edited The Spectator, a Sunday 
ciampaign sheet, in the interest of Charles A. Towne, the success- 
ful Republican candidate for congress from that district. Re- 
turning east in 1896, he became manager of the Concord office 
of the Manchester (New Hampshire) Union. In January, 1898, 
he assumed the duties of manager of the Lewiston Sun, and in 
the following spring contracted a severe cold, which, combined 
with overwork, resulted in consumption, the disease terminating 
fatally on Sept. 11, 1898. He died at Embden, where he had 
gone hoping to benefit his health. 

Married: Feb. 6, 1895, May Alma Day, of Lewiston. 

Child : Fessenden Day Manson, born August 24, 1895, at Du- 
luth. 



CLASS OF 1S89. 25 

Earle Abbott Merrill. 

Earle Abbott Merrill, son of Israel AVarreii and Loiiia Caro- 
line (Prescott) Merrill, was born Sept. 22, 18G7, in Farniington. 
He entered Freshman from his native town, having prepared for 
college at the Farmington High School. On the Monday follow- 
ing graduation he entered the employ of the Edison Electric 
Illuminating Company of New York City, as assistant superin- 
tendent of the construction department, and remained about a 
year. His subsequent positions have been as follows : Assistant 
district engineer, Edison General Electric Compan}^, Chicago 
office, 1890-91 ; superintendent for J. G. White & Co., street 
railway contractors, New York City, six months in 1892 ; elec- 
trical engineer and secretary of the Pierce & Miller Engineering 
Company, New York City, January, 1893, to July, 1897; and 
manager of the New York office of Mcintosh, Seymour & Co., 
engine builders, from July, 1897, to date. In 1891-92 he took 
a course in post graduate Avork at Cornell University, where he 
was a member of the Sigma Xi fraternity. He is the author of 
"Electric Lighting Specifications," two editions, 1892 and 1896; 
"Tables and Formulas for Electric Railway Engineers," two edi- 
tions, 1894 and 1897; and also of miscellaneous papers. Of his 
first book it has been said: "It is admirably gotten up and 
arranged, and cannot fail to be of great use." 

Degree received : A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 

Married : Nov. 2, 1897, Helen Wickliffe Kneedler, of New 
York City. 

Child : Helen Virginia Merrill, born Aug. 28, 1898, New York 
City. 

*t Herbert Merrill. 

Herbert Merrill, son of George True and Emeline (Merrill) 
Merrill, was born Sept. 22, 1863, in Gray. He entered Fresh- 
man from that town, having prepared for college at Bridgton 
Academy. During the winter term of Junior year he was attacked 
by typhoid fever, caused, it is believed, by the use of impure 
drinking water, and the disease terminated fatally on Saturday, 
March 17, 1888. His age was twenty-four years, five months, 
and twenty-five days. The funeral, Tuesday afternoon, March 



26 BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 

20, was attended by a large delegation of the class, from whom 
the pall bearers were selected, and the college quartette rendered 
music. The class sent a floral pillow bearing the numerals " '89." 
President Hyde made appropriate remarks at the services, pay- 
ing a high tribute to our classmate's worth. In memory of the 
deceased all the college exercises of the Junior class were sus- 
pended on the day of the funeral. Merrill was intending, after 
graduation, to enter upon a work of a missionary nature for 
young men in Japan, under the auspices of the Japanese gov- 
ernment. 

The following memorial to our classmate was adopted at a 
meeting of the class : 

IN MEMOKIAM. 

Class Meeting of '80. > 
Bowdoin College, March 19, 1888. 5 
We have been called upon now for the first time in our college course 
to mourn the death of a chissmate. 

While we in our present loss humbly submit to the will of God, be- 
licvino; that "He doeth all things well," yet we can but feel that by the 
death of our classmate, Herbert Merrill, each one of us has lost a 
true and firm friend, and that a vacant place has been made in our class 
which can never be filled. 

Eesolved, That we extend our deepest sympathy to the bereaved 
family, with whom we mourn, and that a copy of this tribute be sent 
to them and to the press. 

S. L. Fogg, 
B. C. Cakroll, 
F. H. Hill, 

D. E. Owen, 

E. E. Stearns, 

Committee for '89. 

Appropriate resolutions, drafted by a committee consisting of 
S. G. Stacey, '89, A. E. Stearns, '90, and J. R. Home, Jr., '91, 
were also passed by the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. 

In the Bowdoin Orient of Wednesday, March 21, 1888, occurs 
the following tribute to Merrill from the editorial pen of Albert 
Walter Tolman, '88 : 

Just as we are about returning the proof of this issue to the printer, 
has come the sad news of the death of Mr. Herbert Merrill, a member 
of the Junior class, at his home in Gray. His sickness was not a long 
one, and his sudden death will prove a heavy blow to his many friends 
throughout the college. 



CLASS OF 1889. 27 

During his whole course Mr. Merrill has beeu a sincere and earnest 
Christian, and has shown a deep interest in all religious work. His 
influence has alwaj'sbeen exerted cousistentl}', and has been productive 
of much good. In the revival going on at present among the students 
he has taken an active part, and to his efforts much of its success is due. 
By his death the college loses a valuable member ; the Young Men's 
Christian Association an earnest and effective worker; and his class 
and society, a true friend and brother. 

Clarence Lincoln Mitchell. 

Clarence Lincoln Mitchell, son of William Ammi and Almira 
Bailey Mitchell, was born Aug. 9, 1860, in Freeport. He entered 
Freshman from his native town, having prepared for college at 
the Freeport High School. Since graduation he has continuously 
engaged in teaching, as follows: Principal Freeport High School, 
1889-90 ; principal Powers Institute, Bernardston, Mass. ; and 
principal High School, Wareham, Mass., September, 1892, to 
date. 

Albert Edwin Neal. 

Albert Edwin Neal, son of William Kilgore and Emeline 
(Mitchell) Neal, was born April 10, 1867, in Brunswick. Pre- 
paring for colleoje at the Portland High School, he entered Fresh- 
man from Portland. Soon after graduation he began to read law 
in his father's office — firm of Mattocks (Bowdoin, 1862), Coombs 
& Neal — at Portland, and was admitted to the Cumberland 
count}^ bar, April 20, 1891. He practiced in Portland for two 
years and then in Boston for about six months, returning to 
Portland in 1893. In June, 1898, he formed a co-partnership 
with his father for the practice of law. He has been a ward 
clerk in Portland, is clerk of several corporations, and is a justice 
of the peace. He is also a member of the Jos sly n Botanical So- 
ciety. 

Degree received: A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 

Married : June 14, 1899, Bessie Justelle Burgess, of South 
Portland. 

Daniel Edward Owen. 

Daniel Edward Owen, son of Hon. George Franklin and Annie 
Gowen (Littlefield) Owen, was born April 30, 1868, in Saco. 



28 BOVVDOIN COLLEGE. 

He took his preparatory course at the High School there, and 
entered Freshman from that city. In the fall of 1889 he entered 
Andover Theological Seminary, where he studied for one year. 
From 1890 to 1897 he was teacher of sciences in the Thornton 
Academy, Saco, and taught in the Summer School in that city in 
1895 and 1896 ; also in the Summer School at Houlton in 1896. 
During his connection with Thornton Academy he was president 
of the York County Teachers' Association for one year, and spoke 
before the Maine Pedagogical Society twice, and before the Maine 
Schoolmasters' Club once. Since the fall of 1897 he has been 
master in science at the William Penn Charter School, Philadel- 
phia, and a part of that time aid to the headmaster. He is the 
author of " Old Times in Saco ; a Monograph on Local Events," 
published in 1891, which was adopted for supplementary reading 
in the Saco public schools, and is included in the list of "One 
Hundred Books on Maine" in the Bowdoin College Library Bulle- 
tin, No. 1. He is also author of the " Nature Study Note Book," 
published in 1896 by the state of Maine to accompany lectures on 
the subject of elementary science before summer schools ; and con- 
tributed "Notes on the Hermit Thrush" to The Auk for January, 
1897. While in Saco he was chosen common councilman from 
ward three, 1893; alderman, ward three, 1894; and alderman, 
ward two, 1896. He is a member of the Maine Historical Society, 
and of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. 

Degree received : A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 

Married : June 27, 1894, Jane Eliza McArthur (Weliesley, 
1892),of Biddeford. 

Child: Margaret Owen, born in Saco, Sept. 3, 1895; died 
April 11, 1897. 

John Murry Phelan. 

John Murry Phelan, son of Eev. William Tait and Ellen Cathe- 
rine (Childs) Phelan, was born Jan. 25, 1865, at Mendon, Mass. 
He entered Freshman from Portland, having prepared for college 
at the Westbrook Seminary. For about two years after gradua- 
tion he was connected with the United States river and harbor 
survey for Maine and New Hampshire as transitman and as 
inspector, and also for a time was in the transportation office of 



CLASS OF 1S89. 29 

James Matthews, 22 State Street, New York City. He then 
secured a position in the actuarial department of the Mutual Life 
Insurance Company, 34 Nassau Street, New York City, where he 
has remained for the past seven years, at present having charge 
of the surrender value department. 

Degree received : A. M., Bowdoin 1892. 

Married : Sept. 1, 1898, Helen Elizabeth Dunklee, of West 
Brattleboro, Vt. 

Lory Prentiss. 

Lory Prentiss, son of Alfred Gordon and Fanny Lucretia 
(Lory) Prentiss, was born March 10, 1867, in Saco. He was 
prepared for college at the High School there, and entered Fresh- 
man from that city. In September following graduation he took 
charge of the field and track athletics at the School for Christian 
Workers, Springfield, Mass., where he had studied during the 
summer. In 1890 he was chosen director of the Newark Academy 
gymnasium, Newark, N. J., which position he has filled to the 
present time. During this period he has attended the Harvard 
Summer School of Physical Training, 1890 ; was student assistant 
there in summers of 1894 and 1895 ; and studied at Chautauqua 
in the summer of 1891. 

Married : June 30, 1891, Lucie Adelaide Stearns, of Saco, 
sister of E. P. Stearns of our class. 

Children: Margaret Stearns Prentiss, born April 11, 1892, 
East Orange, N. J., died May 24, 1896; Ruth Prentiss, born 
Sept. 27, 1893, Newark; Paul Hyde Prentiss, born March 26, 
1895, Newark. 

t Albert Ward Preston. 

Albert Ward Preston, son of Lyman Greaton and Laura (Smith) 
Preston, was born March 22, 1869, in Farmington. He prepared 
for college at the Farmington High School and at the Maine Wes- 
leyan Seminary, Kents Hill, Readfield, and although admitted to 
Bowdoin in the class of 1888, remained out a year, when he 
entered Freshman from Farmington. He left us at the end of 
Sophomore year, and entered the junior class of Amherst College, 
where he graduated, cum laude, in 1889. From 1889 to 1892 he 



30 BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 

was principal of tlie High School at Sharon, Conn., and for the 
succeeding year taught in the Brooklyn Pol^^technic Institute. In 
1893 he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New 
York City, where he graduated June 10, 1896. From May, 1896, 
to May, 1898, he was in the fourth surgical division in Bellevue 
Hospital, New York. When the war with Spain broke out he 
was appointed assistant surgeon, with rank of captain, in the 
Ninth New York Volunteer Infantry, and from May 15 to Nov. 
15 was stationed at Camp George H. Thomas, Chickamauga Park, 
Georgia, in the First Brigade, Second Division, Third Army 
Corps. The time from his muster-out to Jan. 1, 1899, was passed 
in the Sloane Maternity Hospital, New York City, and then until 
April 15 he took the practice of a physician in Paterson, N. J., 
who had gone south for his health. Since that time our classmate 
has been in practice in New York City. 

Degrees received : A. B., Amherst, 1889 ; M. D., College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1896. 

Mervyn Ap Rice. 

Mervyn Ap Rice, son of Hon. Albert Smith (Bowdoin, 1856) 
and Frances Weston (Baker) Rice, was born Nov. 8, 1867, in 
Rockland. He entered Sophomore from that place, after prepar- 
ing for college at Phillips Exeter Academy. From 1889 to 1892 
he engaged in the study of law, both in Attorney General Little- 
field's office at Rockland, and at the Columbia College Law School, 
New York City, leaving the latter before graduation to travel 
abroad. He was admitted to the Knox county bar, in the supreme 
judicial court of Maine, March 15, 1892, and has since practiced 
law in Rockland. In the summer of 1891 he was a member of 
Prof. Lee's Bowdoin scientific expedition, which explored Labra- 
dor. In 1892 he went abroad, visiting Spain, Morocco, France, 
Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, England, Scotland and 
Wales. He was the Democratic candidate for mayor of Rock- 
land in the spring of 1893, and succeeded in reducing the majority 
of his opponent to less than 100 in that strongly Republican city. 
Having previously joined the state militia, he enlisted last year for 
the war with Spain, and entered it as second lieutenant of com- 



CLASS OF 1889. 31 

pany H, First Maine Volunteer Infantry, and was successively 
appointed acting ordnance officer, regimental commissary, and 
acting regimental quartermaster ; was promoted to first lieutenant 
and assigned to Company I, to rank from July 5, 1898. His regi- 
ment was stationed at Camp George H. Thomas, Chickamauga 
Park, during June, July and August, and at Camp Powers, Augus- 
ta, Me., from Aug. 27 till Oct. 30, and then quartered in Augusta 
until Dec. 31, when it was mustered out. At Chickamauga the 
regiment was attached to the Third Brigade, under Gen. Charles 
P. Mattocks (Bowdoin, 1862), of the Second Division of the 
Third Army Corps, commanded by Major General Wade, and was 
included in the Provisional Army Corps designated to go to Porto 
Rico, the departure of which was prevented by the signing of the 
peace protocol. 

Degree received: A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 

Married : Jan. 9, 1893, Ella Frances Dow, of Rockland. 

Children, born in Rockland: Keryn Ap Rice, born Dec. 31, 
1893; Robin Weston Rice, born Aug. 10, 1897. 

Oscar Louville Rideout. 

Oscar Louville Rideout, son of Albert and Harriet S. (Thomes) 
Rideout, was born June 25, 1865, in Cumberland. He entered 
Freshman from that town, having prepared for college at the 
Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kents Hill, Readfield. He has been 
in business ever since graduation, for about three years being a 
member and a portion of the time vice president of Chase & 
Son & Co., Incorporated, mechanical and hydraulic engineers, 
Portland. For six years he was connected with Merrill, Thomes 
& Co., dry and fancy goods, Portland, and was treasurer of the 
firm. Disposing of his interest in the business early in this year, 
he has since devoted himself to settling the estate of his late 
father. 

Degree received: A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 

Married : March 7, 1896, Bessie May Drinkwater of Cumber- 
land. 

Child : Florence Harriet Rideout, born Dec. 20, 1896, in 
Portland. 



32 BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 

William Pitt Fessenden Robie. 

William Pitt Fessenden Robie, son of Governor Frederick 
(Bowdoin, 1841) and Mary Olivia (Priest) Robie, was born 
Nov. 5, 1863, in Dorchester, Mass. He entered the class of 
1888 from Gorham, having prepared for Bo^Ydoin at the Fr3^e- 
burg Academy, and after pursuing the studies of Freshman year, 
left college on account of ill health. He joined our class at the 
opening of Sophomore year. Since graduation he has been en- 
gaged in farming at Gorham, and for the past two years has 
been clerk to the medical director of the Union Mutual Life In- 
surance Company in Portland. "My personal history has been 
small, my family large," he writes. 

Married : April 5, 1891, Flora Barton, of Cherryfield. 

Children, born in Gorham : Mary Frederica Robie, born 
March 2, 1892; Frederick Robie, born Sept. 19, 1893; John 
Waterman Robie, born Oct. 25, 1894; Catherine Manson Robie, 
born Aug. 2, 1896. 

George Lyman Rogers. 

George Lyman Rogers, son of George Henry and Martha Ann 
(Stuart) Rogers, was born Feb. 12, 1866, in Providence, R. I. 
He was prepared for college at the Boston Latin School, and Ber- 
wick Academy, South Berwick, and entered Freshman from 
Wells. After graduation he began the study of law in the office 
of Hon. S. Clifford Belcher (Bowdoin, 1859), at Farmington, 
and for one year, beginning in the fall of 1889, was principal of 
the Farmington High School, in the meantime continuing his legal 
studies. He was admitted to the Franklin county bar in 1891, 
and except for a brief residence in Tacoma, Washington, that 
fall, practiced at Farmington continuously thereafter until the 
latter part of 1894, when he removed to Boston, where he has 
since been engaged in practice. In 1893 and 1894 he served one 
term as attorney for the state of Maine for Franklin county, and 
since August, 1896, has held the responsible position of claim 
attorney for the Metropolitan Park Commission, commonwealth 
of Massachusetts. 

Degree received : A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 



CLASS OF 1889. 33 

Frank Melvin Russell. 

Frank Melvin Russell, son of Benjamin and Lucy Ellen 
(Hamblen) Russell, was born June 21, 18G4, in Lovell. He pre- 
pared for college at the Bridgton Academ.y and entered Fresh- 
man from Centre Lovell. For the first year and a half after 
graduation he was a clerk in the Suffolk Trust Company, Bos- 
ton, and has since been a dealer in shoe manufacturers' goods, 
under the style of Richard D. Greene & Co., 26 Lincoln street, 
Boston. He makes his home on the Lakeview Road, Winchester, 
Mass. 

Married : Dec. 17, 1890, Mary Lucy Wilson, of Somerville, 
Mass. 

Child : Clarence Wilson Russell, born Jan. 15, 1898, at Som- 
erville, Mass. 

Fred Cutler Russell. 

Fred Cutler Russell, son of Henry and Lucy Ann (Stearns) Rus- 
sell, was born Feb. 23, 1866, at Lovell. He entered Freshman 
from Centre Lovell, having prepared for college at the Bridgton 
Academy. In 1889-90 he was principal of the High School at 
Warren; 1890-91, principal of Pembroke High School; and 
1891-93, superintendent of schools at Rockland. He studied at 
the Medical School of Maine and in the Dartmouth Medical Col- 
lege, Hanover, N. H., in 1893 and 1894, graduating from the 
latter Nov. 20, 1894. Since that time he has been located in 
practice at Newbury, Vt., also practicing in the neighboring town 
of Haverhill, N. H., in 1896-97. He was superintendent of 
schools of Newbury for 1895 and 1896, and during the past year 
has been health officer of the town. 

Degrees received : A. M., Bowdoin, 1892; M. D., Dart- 
mouth, 1894. 

Married : Dec. 16, 1891, Carrie Amelia Farrington, of Lovell. 

t Edward Newton Shirley. 

Edward Newton Shirley, son of Joshua and Mary Elizabeth 
(Woodward) Shirley, was born Sept. 10, 1867, at Conway, N. H. 
He entered Freshman from that town, having prepared for college 



34 BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 

at the Fryeburg Academy. Leaving Bowdoiii in October of Junior 
year owing to ill health, he remained at home for some months, 
and in the fall of 1888 entered the Janior class of Dartmouth 
College, where he graduated in 1890. He writes to your secre- 
tary : "Have taught one year, been supervisor of schools at Con- 
way, N. H., been one year in shoe business, been railroading 
three years with Boston & Albany railroad, and variously occu- 
pied the remaining time." His present occupation is that of a 
railroad man, and his permanent address is Fryeburg, Me. 
Degree received: A. B., Dartmouth, 1890. 

Edward Augustus Burton Smith. 

Edward Augustus Burton Smith, son of Augustus Leander and 
Mary Ellen (Thorne) Smith, was born June 19, 1867, in Augusta. 
He entered Junior from that city, having taken the first half of 
his collegiate course at Tufts College. His preparatory school 
was Westbrook Seminary. Since July 16, 1889, he has held the 
position of chief ofBce deputy United States marshal, district of 
Maine, with office at Portland. In January, 1898, he issued a 
"Digest of Decisions, Rulings, and Instructions, relating to the 
office of the United States Marshal, for the District of Maine," 
which received favorable mention in the Maine press. Of the 
compilation the Portland Argus said: "This work is complete, as 
it contains the decisions of tlie comptroller of the treasury, the 
rulings of the auditor of the state and other departments, and the 
instructions of the attorney general. It comprises 150 typewrit- 
ten pages, neatly bound. It will be a most ready reference as it 
covers the period of eight years in which Mr. Smith has held the 
position of chief office deputy." 

Married: June 20, 1894, Viola Lailie Dearing, of Portland. 

Child : Paul Webster Smith, born in Portland, May 30, 1897. 

Orrin Ripley Smith. 

Orrin Ripley Smith, son of Dr. Henry Sutton Burgess (Bow- 
doin, 1861) and Ophelia (Ripley) Smith, was born Nov. 9, 1866, 
in Bowdoinham. He entered Freshman from Middleboro, Mass., 
havmg prepared for college at Eaton's Family School and the 



CLASS OF 1889. 35 

High School, Middleboro. Soon after graduation he became 
junior partner of the firm of Ellis & Smith, clothiers, etc., Middle- 
boro, and remained in the business for about three years and a 
half. A like period was spent as travelling salesman for Hill & 
Greene, boots and shoes, Boston, his territory being the middle 
west. Since the fall of 1897 he has travelled through Missouri, 
Kansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, represent- 
ing the George E. Keith Company, Campello, Mass., manufactur- 
ers of men's shoes. 
Degree received : A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 

Married : Nov. 12, 1890, Mary Ida Copeland, of Middleboro. 

Children, born -in Middleboro: Madeline Strowbridge Smith, 
born Aug. 17, 1893; Elizabeth Copeland Smith, born June 10, 
1897. 

Sidney Grant Stacey. 

Sidney Grant Stacey, son of Jordan and Lydia Frances (Tib- 
bets) Stacey, was born July 20, 1868, at Porter. He entered 
Freshman from Kezar Falls, having prepared for college at the 
Bridgton Academy. In the fall after graduation he entered Johns 
Hopkins University, Baltimore, where he studied for four years, 
winning a university scholar&liip of $200 in 1890-91, and a fel- 
lowship of $500 in 1891. For the year 1893-94 he was professor 
in Latin at Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa. He went abroad in 
1894 and spent two years at the University of Leipsic, Germany. 
During that time he visited all the principal cities in England and 
France. After his return to this country, in the winter of 1896- 
97, he taught Greek and Latin in a school in Tennessee. In 
February, 1898, he was appointed professor of Latin at Adelphi 
Academy, Brooklyn, which position he still holds. 

Degree received : Ph. D., Leipsic, 1896. 

Frank Leslie Staples. 

Frank Leslie Staples, son of Charles Austin and Miranda Carll 
(Taylor) Staples, was born Jan. 28, 1866, in Topsham. His 
preparatory course was taken at the Coburn Classical Institute, 
Waterville, and he entered Freshman from Benton. In August 



36 BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 

after graduation he began to read law in the office of Baker, Baker 
(Bowdoin, 1868) & Cornish, Augusta, his studies continuing until 
Oct. 21, 1891, when he was admitted to the Kennebec county bar 
at a session of the supreme judicial court at Augusta, Judge White- 
house presiding. There was one other candidate, and the Kenne- 
bec Journal said : " Both passed exceptionally fine examinations 
and were admitted, and the presiding judge took occasion to pay 
them a high but well deserved compliment, and they were heartily 
congratulated at the close by every member of the bar present." 
Our classmate practiced in Bath from November, 1891, to Septem- 
ber, 1893, when he returned to Augusta and formed a partnership 
with Hon. Orville Dewey Baker (Bowdoin, 1868), which still 
continues. 

Degree received : A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 

Married ; Sept. 23, 1896, Annie Louise Roberts, of Bath. 

Edward Roland Stearns. 

Edward Roland Stearns, son of John Frye and Mary (Emmons) 
Stearns, was born Nov. 10, 1867, in Biddeford. He entered 
Freshman from Saco, having prepared for college at the Saco 
High School. In the fall of 1889 he entered Andover Theological 
Seminary, from which he was graduated June 16,1892. He was 
ordained to the Congregational ministry Sept. 27, 1892, at Farm- 
ington, and has since filled pastorates as follows : New Vineyard, 
1892-96, and Warren, 1896 to date. While at New Vineyard he 
was superintendent of public schools, 1895-96. 

Married: Sept. 15, 1896, Frances Alice Voter, of New Vine- 
yard. 

Child : Mary Everett Stearns, born March 10, 1898, at War- 
ren. 

George Thwing. 

George Thwing, son of Joseph Perkins and Hannah Morse 
(Hopkins) Thwing, was born Sept. 14, 1867, in New Sharon. 
His preparatory course was taken at Phillips Academy, Andover, 
Mass., and he entered Sophomore from Farmington. About the 
first of January, 1890, he entered the Boston University Law 
School, where he studied for a year and a half. Going west in 



CLASS OF 1889. 37 

1891 lie located in Miuneapolis, and became connected with the 
office of W. H. Norris, solicitor for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. 
Paul railroad, meanwhile attending lectures at the' University of 
Minnesota Law^ School until February, 1892. In March of that 
year he passed the bar examinations, ranking third among the 
candidates, with two men tied for first place. He was admitted 
to the bar in the supreme court, April 6, 1892, and has since prac- 
ticed in Minneapolis, his office being at 715 New York Life 
Building. 

Degree received : A. M., Bowdoin, 1892. 
Oliver Patterson Watts. 

Oliver Patterson Watts, son of Joseph Burgess and Maria 
(Patterson) Watts, was born July 16, 1865, in Thomaston. He 
entered Freshman from that place, after preparing for college at 
the Thomaston High School. In the fall after graduation he 
entered Clark University, Worcester, Mass., to pursue advanced 
studies in chemistry, and remained a year. From 1890 to 1892 
he was principal of the Grammar School at Thomaston, and from 
September, 1892, to June, 1898, taught algebra, geometry, 
physics, chemistry and astronomy at Franklin Academy, Malone, 
N. Y. For the past year he has been instructor in physics in the 
High School at Waltham, Mass. 

Degree received: A.M., Bowdoin, 1892. 

Verdeil Oberon White. 

Verdeil Oberon AYhite, son of James Oberon and Zerna Eme- 
line (Walker) White, was born Oct. 13, 1865, in East Dixfield. 
He was prepared for college at the Wilton Academy, and entered 
Freshman from his native town. In the fall after graduation he 
began the study of medicine at the Harvard Medical School, and 
also with Dr. F. H. Morse, Melrose, Mass. On graduating 
from Harvard in June, 1892, he at once began the practice of his 
profession in East Dixfield, where he has since been located. He 
is a member of tlie Maine Medical Society, and from 1893 to 
1897 was United States examining surgeon for Franklin county. 

Degrees received : A. M., Bowdoin, 1892 ; M. D., Harvard, 
1892, 



38 HOWDOIN COLT.EGE. 

t Frank Albert Wilson. 

Frank Albert Wilson, son of Edward Henry and Isabella Fran- 
ces (Blanchard) Wilson, was born Nov. 5, 1865, at Cumberland 
Centre. He entered Freshman from Yarmouth, after preparing 
for college at the Yarmouth High School. In the fall of 1886 
Williams College was in urgent need of a good base ball pitcher, 
and succeeded in attracting our classmate to that institution, 
where he graduated. He taught Latin, English, and athletics 
in the Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., for the year 1889-90; 
Latin, Greek, and French for two and a half years in the Rex- 
leigh School, Salem, N. Y. ; Latin, Greek, French, and English 
in Drury Academy, North Adams, Mass., two and a half years ; 
and for the past four years has been instructor in French in the 
Classical High School, Worcester, Mass. He studied in Paris,, 
and also visited England, in the summer of 1897. 

Degree received : A. B., WiUiams, 1889. 

Married : Aug. 21, 1893, Laura S. Meeker, of Mobile, Ala. 



POST-GRADUATION MEETINGS 



Initiations, 1889. — The first meeting of tlie class in any num- 
bers after graduation was at the initiations on Friday, Oct. 11, 
1889, when there came together on the campus : Clark, Crocker, 
Emery, Lynam, Manson, Mitchell, Phelan, Rideout, F. M. Rus- 
sell, E. A. B. Smith, O. R. Smith, Staples and Thwing — thirteen. 
Eight of us had an informal reunion in O. R. Smith's former 
room in South Maine the following Sunday afternoon, after 
chapel. 

Commencement of 1890. — The members of the class present at 
Commencement in 1890 were as follows : Bodge, Clark, Crocker, 
Doherty, Elden, S. L. Fogg, Little, Mitchell, Neal, Phelan, 
Rideout, Robie, Rogers, F. C. Russell, E. A. B. Smith, O. R. 
Smith, Stacey, Staples, Stearns — nineteen. Thirteen of these 
had a supper at the Tontine on the night of June 26, Bodge 
acting as toastmaster. 

Commencement of 1891. — Ten members were present on the 
second anniversary of our graduation. They were: Bodge, Car- 
roll, Files, C. H. Fogg, Owen, Robie, F. C. Russell, E. A. B. 
Smith, O. R. Smith and Staples. 

Our Triennial. — In accordance with a vote of the class at the 
time of graduation, a formal reunion was arranged for our trien- 
nial, and twenty-two of the classmates assembled : E. L. Adams, 
Bodge, Carroll, Clark, Elden, Emery, C. H. Fogg, S. L. Fogg, 
Libby, Little, Neal, Owen, Phelan, Prentiss, Rideout, Robie, 
Rogers, F. C. Russell, 0. R. Smith, Staples, Stearns and Watts. 
For the first time on record, so far as known, a class reunion was 
held in one of the college buildings, '89 's dinner occurring in the 
Sargent gymnasium on Wednesday evening, June '22^ 1892. 
Robinson of Portland was caterer. Grace was said by Stearns. 
Rogers, our president of Senior year, was in the chair. The sec- 



40 BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 

retary read letters from a number of absent classmates, and each 
of those present recounted his personal history and experiences 
since graduation. The class cup was awarded to Ralph Jordan 
Hill, infant son of Frank Howard Hill, and was duly forwarded 
later by the cup committee, Lynam. Through committees the 
class sent congratulations to Jackson on the occasion of his mar- 
riage the following day, and condolences to Prof. Chapman on 
the death of his wife. It was decided to hold the next reunion 
in 1894. On Commencement day seventeen of those present 
marched upon the platform in the church and received the degree 
of A. M., the occasion being the last upon which this degree was 
conferred in course. Ten of the absentees also received the de- 
gree. Bodge responded for the class at the speeches following 
Commencement dinner. 

Commencement of 1893. — Bodge, Little, Eogers, Staples and 
Thwing were the only classmates present at Brunswick at Com- 
mencement in 1893. "We were together most of the time," 
wrote Staples, "but did not have a spread. There were so few 
of us that it would have been too lonesome." 

Our Quinquennial. — Naturally the great celebration of the 
college centenary brought out a good attendance for our stated 
reunion in 1894. The class dinner was held in the big tent on 
the campus Wednesday evening, June 27, at which the following 
were present: Bodge, Crocker, Doherty, Elden, Emery, Files, C. 
H. Fogg, S. L. Fogg, Freeman, Gilpatric, Hill, Jackson, Libby, 
Little, Neal, Phelan, Prentiss, Preston, Rice, Rideout, Robie, Rog- 
ers, F. M. Russell, E. A. B. Smith, Staples and Stearns — twenty- 
six ; and also W. R. Tenney, special student. Rogers presided, 
and Stearns invoked the Divine blessing. Robinson of Port- 
land was the caterer. The proceedings were similar to those of 
1892. Congratulations were sent to Owen upon his marriage, 
which took place that day. It Avas voted that at the time 
of our next reunion in 1899 the secretary issue the class book, 
comprising a biographical and historical record. The gathering 
broke up with the singing of "AuldLang Syne." On Commence- 
ment day Stacey, who had been unavoidably detained, joined us, 
making the total number present twenty-seven. 



CLASS OF 1889. 41 

Since 1894. — Since 1894 no attempt has been made at keeping 
a list of the classmates present at each commencement. There 
has always been at least one of our number in attendance, Bodge 
not having missed a year since 1889. Up to and including 1896 
Staples was the only other man with a like record. In 1895 
Staples represented the class among the Commencement dinner 
speakers. For the decennial reunion of 1899 a dinner has been 
arranged at the Congress Square Hotel, Portland, on the evening 
of Wednesday, June 21, the class to go in a body to Brunswick 
the next morning for Commencement day. By a mail vote of the 
class, Staples has been chosen orator and Hill poet for the reunion. 



42 BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 



MARRIAGES, CHRONOLOGICALLY. 



1890 — Feb. 5. — Hill and Mary Caroline Murray. 

Aug. 27. — Freeman and Ida May Strout. 

Nov. 12. — 0. R. Smith and Mary Ida Copelaud. 

Dec. 17. — F. M. Russell and Mary Lucy Wilson. 
1891— Apr. o.— Robie and Flora Barton. 

June 30. — Prentiss and Lucie Adelaide Stearns. 

Sept. 29.— *Crocker and Rose Lunt Pratt. 

Oct. 14. — fF. W. Adams and Annie Ross Baker. 

Dec. 16. — F. C. Russell and Carrie A.melia Farrington. 
1892 — lune 23.— t Jackson and Ellen Mower Bates. 

Oct. 12. — Hersey and Sarah Dow Weeks. 

Dec. 2. — E. L. Adams and Effie Cynthia Dascombe. 

Dec. 7.- C. H. Fogg and Rosina Hodgdon Kidder. 
1893— Jan. 9.— Rice and Ella Frances Dow. 

July 18. — Bodge and Josephine Florence King. 

Aug. 21. — t Wilson and Laura S. Meeker. 

Dec. 12. — Lynam and Bertha Jessica Knowlton. 
1894 — Mar. 24. — Emery and Margaret Calhoun Donaghy. 

May 9. — Files and Edith Davis. 

June 18. — Little and Lillian Blackman. 

June 20. — E. A. B. Smith and Viola Lailie Dearing. 

June 27. — Owen and Jane Eliza McArthur. 

Aug. 30. — Libby and Florence Rebecca Alberta Fairfield. 
1895— Feb. 6.—* fManson and May Alma Day. 

Oct. 30.— Doherty and Harriet Isabella Madigan. 
1896 — Mar. 7. — Rideout and Bessie May Driukwater. 

Sept. 15. — Stearns and Frances Alice Voter. 

Sept. 23.— Staples and Annie Louise Roberts. 
1897— Nov. 2.— E. A. Merrill and Helen AYickliffe Kueedler. 
1898 — June 22. — S. L. Fogg and Jessie Katherine Moody. 

Sept. 1.— Phelau and Helen Elizabeth Dunklee. 
1899— June 14. — Neal and Bessie Justelle Burgess. 



CLASS OF 1889. 43 



CHILDREN, CHRONOLOGICALLY. 



1890— Nov. 2.— Ralph Jordan Hill. 
1891 — Dec. 25.— Eleanor Louise Hill. 
1892 — Mar. 2. — Mary Frederica Robie. 

Apr. 11. — Margaret Stearns Prentiss; died Ma.y 24, 1896. 

Apr. 21. — Ethel Marion Freeman. 

Oct. 21. — Lucy Cushin^^j Adams. 
1893 — Aug. 17. — Madeline Strowbridge Smith. 

Sept. 19. — Frederick Robie. 

Sept. 24.— Ethel Jackson. 

Sept. 27.— Ruth Prentiss. 

Dec. 31. — Keryn Ap Rice. 
1894— May 10.— Ethel Margaret Adams. 

Oct. 25. — John Waterman Robie. 
1895— Mar. 11.— Carroll Bryce Little. 

Mar. 26. — Paul Hyde Prentiss. 

May 30. — Mary Bodge. 

July 13. — John Chauncey Lynam. 

Aug. 24, — Fessenden Day Manson. 

Sept. 3. — Margaret Owen; died April 11, 1897. 
1896— Feb. 21.— Arline Dorothea Crocker. 

Mar. 15. — Ruth Dascombe Adams. 

Aug. 2.— Catherine Manson Robie. 

Nov. 28.— James Cottrill Doherty. 

Dec. 20.— Florence Harriet Rideout. 
1897- Apr. 17.— John Bodge. 

May 30. — Paul Webster Smith. 

June 10. — Elizabeth Copeland Smith. 

Aug. 10. — Robin Weston Rice. 

Dec. 9. — Evelyn Weeks Hersey. 
1898— Jan. 15.— Clarence Wilson Russell. 

Mar. 10.— Mary Everett Stearns. 

May 6. — Stanley Baker Adams. 

June 30. — Louis Whittier Doherty. 

Aug. 28. — Helen Virginia Merrill. 

Sept. 1. — Frank Campbell Lynam. 



44 BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 



DEATHS. 



1888— Mar. 17.— fHerbert MerrilL 
1894— Jan. 31.— George William Hayes. 
1898— Mar. 30.— Thomas Stowell Crocker. 

Sept. 11. — tErasmus Valchester Manson. 



OCCUPATIONS. 



Educators.— E. L. Adams, Elden, Files, Freeman, Gilpatric, Hill, 
Mitchell, Owen, Prentiss, Stacey, Watts, fWilson — 12. 

Lawyers. — Bodge, Carroll, Doherty, S. L. Fogg, jHarriman, Libby, 
Little, ISTeal, Rice, Rogers, Staples, Thwing — 12. 

Physicians. — Clark, fJackson, Lynam, fPi'eston, F. C. Russell, White 
—6. 

In Business.— C. H. Fogg, Rideout, F. M. Russell, O. R. Smith— 4. 

Clergymen.— Hersey, Stearns — 2. 

Insurance. — Phelan, Robie — 2. 

Electrician and Railway Engineer. — E. A. Merrill. 

Deputy U. S. Marshal.— E. A. B. Smith. 

Newspaper Man. — Emery. 

Railroad Man. — f Shirley. 

Banker.— fF. W. Adams. 

Deceased Classmates. — Lawyers, Crocker and Hayes ; newspaper man, 
fManson ; student, fH. Merrill. 



CLASS OF ISS!). 45 



DEGREES RECEIVED. 



(Not includinof A. B. conferred at Bovvdoiu, 1889.) 

Bachelor of Arts. — fJackson, Bowdoin. 1891; fPreston, Amherst, 
1889; t<^hii"l^y, JDartmouth, 1890; f Wilson, Williams, 1889—4. 

Master of Arts. — E. L. Adams, Bodge, Clark, Elden, Emery, Files, S. 
L. Fo^g, Freeman, Gilpatric, *Hayes, Hersey, Libby, Little, Lynam, 
E. A. Merrill, Neal, Owen, Phelau, Rice, Rideout, Roojers, F. C. Rus- 
sell, O. R. Smith, Staples, Thwing, Watts, White, all Bowdoin, 1892—27. 

Doctor of Medicine — Clark, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New 
York, 1895; fJficksou, Dartmouth, 1896; Lynam, Harvard, 1893; fPres- 
tou, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1896; F. C. Russell, 
Dartmouth,. 1894; White, Harvard, 1892—6. 

Bachelor of Laws. — *Crocker, Columbian University, 1891. 

Doctor of Philosophy. — Files, Leipsic, 1893; Stacey, Leipsic, 1896— 2. 



FRATERNITY MEMBERSHIP. 



Alpha Delta Phi.— Carroll, *Hayes, Libby, Robie, fShirley, Watts— 6. 

Psi Upsilon. — fF. W. Adams, Files, C. H. Fogg, Freeman, Gilpatric, 
Lynam, Neal, Prentiss, Rice, Stearns— 10. 

Delta Kappa Epsllon. — E. L. Adams, Doherty, Emery, fJfickson, 
♦fManson, E. A. Merrill, Owen, fPreston, Rogers, Thwing, White — 11. 

Theta Delta Chi.— Bodge, Clark, fHarriman, Hersey, Hill, Little, 
*tH. Merrill, Mitchell, F. M. Russell, F. C. Russell, Stacey— 11. 

Zeta Psi.— *Crocker, S. L. Fogg, Phelan, Rideout, E. A. B. Smith, O. 
R. Smith, Staples, t Wilson — 8. 

Delta Upsilon (Colby Chapter).— Eldeu—1. 



Phi Beta Kappa. — Bodge, Clark, Elden, Emery, Files, Hersey, E. A. 
Merrill, Neal, Owen, F. C. Russell, Stacey, Stearns, Watts — 13. 



4S BOVVDOIN COLLEGE. 



RESIDENCES, BY STATES. 



In College.— Maine, 44; Massachusetts, 2; New Hampshire, 1; three 
states. 

June, 1899.— Maine, 17; Massachusetts, 12; New York, 5; Minnesota, 
3 ; Vermont, 2; Califoruia. Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, 
1 each ; nine states. 



STATISTICAL SUMMARY. 



Total membership, 47. 
Number entered Freshman, 39. 
Number graduated, 39. 
Entered after Freshman year, 8. 
Left after Freshman year, 7. 

Average age at graduation, 23 years, 5 months, 7 days; oldest man, 
Hersey; youngest, Slacey; nearest average age. Staples. 
Graduates of other classes, 1. 
Graduates of other colleges, 3. 
Sons of Bowdoin alumni, 5. 

Died : During the course, 1 ; since graduation, 3. 
Number married, 33 ; 2 deceased. 
Number unmarried, 14; 2 deceased. 
Fathers in the class, 22 ; 2 deceased. 
Number of children, 35 ; 2 deceased. 
Largest family, Robie, 4 children. 
Served in army during War with Spain. 3. 



CLASS OF 1889. 47 



ADDRESSES OF THE CLASS, 

JUNE, 1899. 



Emersou L. Adams, New Salem, Mass. 

Frederic W. Adams, Merchants National Bank, Bauoror, Me. 

L. J. Bodge, 523 Boston Block, Miuueapolis, Minn. 

B. C. Carroll, Stockton, Cal. 

Dr. John E. Clark, Fort Wadswortli, New York Harbor. 

James L.Doherty, 22 Theatre Bldg., Court Sq., Springfield, 

Mass. 
Prof. Wallace S. Elden, .... University of Maine, Orono, Me. 

William M. Emery, 103 Acushnet Ave., New Bedford, Mass. 

Prof. George T. Files, .... Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me. 

Charles H. Fogg, Houlton, Me. 

Judge S. L. Fogg, Bath, Me. 

Frederick W. Freeman, . . . . P. O. Box 534, Westbrook, Me. 

W. D. Gilpatric, West Boylstou, Mass. 

Charles H. Harriman, .... New Haven, Conn. 

Rev. C. F. Hersey, 248 Chestnut St., New Bedford, Mass. 

Frank H. Hill, Rockland, Me. 

Dr. H. C. Jackson, Norwich, Vt. 

F. J. Libby, • • 423 Tremont Bldg., Boston, Mass. 

F. J. C. Little, Augusta, Me. 

Dr. Frank Lynam, Duluth, Minn. 

E. A. Merrill, 26 Cortlandt St., New York City. 

Clarence L. Mitchell, Wareham, Mass. 

Albert E. Neal, Portland, Me. 

Daniel E. Owen, Wm. Penn Charter School, Philadelphia. 

John M. Phelan, Mutual Life Ins. Co., 34 Nassau St., New 

York City. 

Lory Prentiss, 223 Grafton Ave., Newark, N. J. 

Dr. Albert W. Preston 13 East 101st St., New York City. 

Mervyu Ap Rice, 407 Main St., Rockland, Me. 

Oscar L. Rideout, Portland, Me. 

Wm. P. F. Robie, Union ^lutual Life Ins. Co., Portland, Me. 

George L. Rogers, 14 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. 

Frank M. Russell, 26 Lincoln St., Boston, Mass. 

Dr. Fred C. Russell, • . . . Newbury, Vt. 



48 BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 

Edward N. Shirley, Fryeburg, Me. 

Burton Smith, U. S. Marshal's office, Portland, Me. 

Orrin R. Smith, Middleboro, Mass. 

Prof. Sidney G. Stacey, ... 9 Arlington Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Frank L. Staples, . . . • . . Augusta, Me. 

Rev. E. R. Stearns, Warren, Me. 

George Thwing, 715 New York Life Bldg., Minneapolis. 

Oliver P. Watts, 24 Harris St., Waltham, Mass. 

Dr. V. O. White, East Dixfield, Me. 

Frank A. Wilson, 10 Williams St., Worcester, Mass. 



ERRATA. 

Page 15. Elden. Is candidate for degree of Ph. D. in 1900, and not 
as stated. He will present as his thesis : ''The Syntax of the Verb in 
Horace." 

Page 19. Gilpatric has been elected principal of the Attleboro 
(Mass.) High School for the ensuing year. 

Page 35. Stacey. In February, 1898, he was appointed professor of 
Latin at Erasmus Hall, Brookljm, and not as stated. 



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